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Folks, I've been away, due to a hospitilization for something called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, (newly diagnosed). To make a long story short, 3 weeks or so ago I woke up with some bad GERD, it was bad. 4 am. I grabbed a bottle of Mylanta that was in the cabinet and took a swallow. Within 10 minutes I broke out in hives on my arms and stomach and thinghs. It got worse over the day, my doc zoomed with me, told me to use some Benadryl, it did nothing, but it knocked me out, I woke up vomiting as if I needed to get my liver out, and my face just blew up like full high beam lupus face, she told me to go to ER, my pulse was 130 and counting and blood pressure dropped to 86/34, anaphylactic shock, they started an IV bolus with steroids and some sort of IV antihistamine. I spasmed as the histamine left my body, and then the rash quited down, kept me in for tests. I am fine now, better than I have felt in years. The chronic lyme had me overdeveloping mast cells, which are immune cells formed in bone marrow. They are meant to attack the usual things, but when they go wrong, they attack everything that has histamine in it. Mylanta contains something called simithicone, a "harmless" thing that helps relieve gas, its silicone based, coats the gas bubble, and releases it. Problem is, mast cells congregated around my hip replacement, and the place the femur replacement goes is a silicone cup, so, the mast cells saw the silicone in the Mylanta as an enemy, and they all released their toxins, and I could have died. I am on a simple enough program to follow, Pepcid AC, Allegra, and a drug called Singular, used for asthma, but puts mast cells to sleep, an immuno suppresser. No fermented or aged foods, no sausages, kombucha, bacon or vinegar based condiments. No gluten, no tomatos (groan). I am eating a bland but fresh and healthy diet, taking tons of supplements that my doctor reccomended, Quercitin, CoQ10, B12, Liposomal Vitamin C, extra D, and magnesium. As I said, all inflammation has left my body, I feel good, missing the foods I love, but am alive. Lyme Disease can kill, I am so grateful that my doc knows about this auto immune killer. Lyme was created in a Laboratory, please avoid ticks, the antibiotic protocol does not always (ever) work for it. Thank you for reading, glad to be back iin the fray. Have a blessed Palm Sunday.
Praise God you are ok and back with us all. So sorry you had to endure all of that.
thank you!
You’re most welcome ❤️
Sulfur.
Quercitin VITAL in your protocol. Wonderful for quieting mast cell activation and inflammation. I'm not seeing Zinc in it, seems a glaring absence for you Fren.
It's something I already take, the other things I was not mindful of their importance as much, like the extra liquid B12 methyl folate, and Quercitin when I was sick, not every day. I am taking 1,000 mgs a day, and the CoQ10 at 1oomgs she said I could basically take every 3 hours. Being leary of many pharmacueticals, I was not taking the other things. Amazing thing was, as soon as I took the singular, my O2 levels shot up to 99%, and my brain fog lifted. No side effects except feeling a whole lot better than I have for years.
Nice!